More about Sarah
Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors. This is a sample from my latest work, and I hope you enjoy it. It continues after Alan has been interviewed by the machine. This selection is part of where Sarah Gonzales is introduced. She's important, mostly by her absence in the first part of the book - she disappears - but takes a much more active role later. She's just gone through "the selection", a rather brutal sorting out of who is smart enough to go to "the academy" and work with or on "The Machine." It's done in school, in front of everyone. However, after that there seems to be a problem. While it's not really emphasized, this is a critical clue to what's happening in the story.
The machine
beside him spoke, “Mr. Anderson, please, I don’t make that kind of mistake.”
They proceeded to
discuss her as if she weren’t there.
“She doesn’t seem
to have the depth we require; she is decent in logic and is highly imaginative,
but.”
“Have you checked
the date and signature?”
Sarah drifted off
into her own world.
Lord Pershore
pulled his sword and stealthily approached the highwaymen. They bound Lady
Sarah Jane Gonzales and were carrying her off to their lair, a run-down public
house near the Bath road.
“Ms. Gonzales,
pay attention, please,” it was that man again. She stood and said, “Well if
I’ve failed, I’ve failed; I’ll just go now.”
“No you haven’t; it looks like someone from the resistance has been at
work; you don’t know anyone in the mutual impedance society?”
This work was recently published and is available for Kindle, including Kindle unlimited. It is a dark, noir detective story set in the near future, after machines have become intelligent. It uses a number of engineering/science puns - the "mutual impedance society."
Available here.
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